PHP narrow down search

Question

My search results are now printing out each and every entry whenever there is a matched field with my txt file; it's not printing out the filtered result. How can I change my if statements so that I can achieve the narrowing down function? Thank you!

here's my handle_search.php:

 $delimiter = ' | ';
 if(isset($_POST['submit'])){

 $seasonsr = $_POST["seasonsr"];
 $numbersr = $_POST["numbersr"];
 $titlesr = $_POST["titlesr"];
 $directorsr = $_POST["directorsr"];
 $datesr = $_POST["datesr"];

 $file = fopen("park.txt", "r");      

    if (!$file) {
    die("There was a problem opening the park.txt file");
    }

$search = file("park.txt");
$isfound = false;

foreach($search as $find){

    $match = false;
    $explode = explode($delimiter, $find);
    if ($seasonsr == $explode [0] && $_POST['seasonsr'] != "") {
        print $explode [0]. "  " . $explode[1]. "  " . $explode[2]. "  " . $explode[3]. 
"  " .     $explode[4];
        print ("<br/>");
        $isfound = true;
    $match = true;
    }

    if ($numbersr == $explode [1] && $_POST['numbersr'] != "" && !$match) {
        print $explode [0]. "  " . $explode[1]. "  " . $explode[2]. "  " . $explode[3]. 
"  " . $explode[4];
        print ("<br/>");
        $isfound = true;
        $match = true;
    }

    if ($titlesr == $explode [2] && $_POST['titlesr'] != "" && !$match) {
        print $explode [0]. "  " . $explode[1]. "  " . $explode[2]. "  " . $explode[3]. 
"  " . $explode[4];
        print ("<br/>");
        $isfound = true;
        $match = true;
    }


    if ($directorsr == $explode [3] && $_POST['directorsr'] != "" && !$match) {
        print $explode [0]. "  " . $explode[1]. "  " . $explode[2]. "  " . $explode[3]. 
"  " . $explode[4];
        print ("<br/>");
        $isfound = true;
        $match = true;
    }

$itemdate= $explode[4];
    //print("<p>search: $datesr item: $itemdate match: </p>");
    if (trim($datesr) == trim($explode [4]) && $_POST['datesr'] != "" && !$match) {
        print $explode [0]. "  " . $explode[1]. "  " . $explode[2]. "  " . $explode[3]. 
"  " . $explode[4];
        print ("<br/>");
        $isfound = true;
        $match = true;
    }

}
if(!$isfound){
    echo ("Sorry! No search found.");
}
}
fclose($file);
}

Answer 1

A couple of tips:

• You should work with fgetcsv since you have a delimited file.
• I would also look at placing your matching values into an array for easy comparison. No need to do all those crazy conditionals.
• Place your output generation in a function or similar reusable section of code rather than write the same line over and over.
• You probably should have some sort of POST data validation to make sure you are getting data in expected formats (this is not shown in example below).

Putting it all together might look like this:

$delimiter = ' | ';
// array of POST field names you are interested in
$match_fields = array(
    'seasonr',
    'numbersr',
    'titlesr',
    'directorsr',
    'datesr'
);
// array to store POSTed values
$match_values = array();

if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
    // load POSTed values into match array
    foreach($match_fields as $i => $field) {
        $match_values[$i] = null;
        if(!empty($_POST[$field])) {
            $match_values[$i] = $_POST[$field];
        }
    }

    // open file to read
    $file = fopen("park.txt", "r");      

    if (!$file) {
        die("There was a problem opening the park.txt file");
    }

    $isfound = false;
    // $match = false; -- not used as this seems same as $isfound

    // go through file one line at a time
    while($line = fgetcsv($file, 0, $delimiter)) {
        for($i = 0; $i < count($line); $i++) {
            if($line[i] === $match_values[$i]) {
                $isfound = true;
                print_line($line);
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    fclose($file);

    if (false === $isfound) {
        echo 'No results found';
    }
} else {
    // no POST was made do something else
}

function print_line($line) {
    $string = '';
    foreach($line as $item) {
        $string .= $item . ' ';
    }
    rtrim($string);
    $string .= '<br/>';
    echo $string;
}